Chartered Engineer

I have been a member of the BCS for a while.   They now have got back, or maybe not, their route to SPEC accreditation. This document, “UK STANDARD FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING COMPETENCE”, published by SPEC details the requirements for formal engineering accreditations. I think the formal engineering education required for Chartered Engineer might stump me…

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RDBMS theory

This was written 2014, I wonder how relevant it is today (2023). Much of it points are theory, which should not have changed. 😀 Barry Morris, CEO of Nuodb, has written a series of articles about the “Holy Grail”, which he published at the Cloud Computing Journal, and somewhere within the NuoDB site. The most…

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Ubuntu 13.10

I am installing this on the Mac under Virtual Box. This snip is about Ubuntu. The first problem is that it comes with quite a bit of crap installed and the Unity search is over zealous and too network noisy. This might be helpful, an article about the first 10 things to do. I seem…

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RCS

Revision Control System, one of the grand daddies of them all. I still use it because its simple and does not have a network interface. Actually, I don’t use it anymore, because it is not a network solution. Links The featured image comes from an OStechnix article on VCS. An O’reilly five minute tutorial http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/rcs/…

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